Sentences with phrase «contemporary painting does»

Although it can sometimes appear as if contemporary painting doesn't really require a subject other than itself, painters themselves are generally immersed in a self - selecting field of their stylistic forebears, perf group and younger contemporaries.

I am, however, slightly biased when it comes to abstract painting, which is perhaps why contemporary painting does not always grab me in the same way.

WW: What understanding of the role of gender in contemporary painting do you want viewers to walk away with?

Not exact matches

When I was not doing homework, my evenings and weekends were consumed by painting, music, as well as ballet, jazz, contemporary, and tap dance lessons.

However, his work was interrupted by the Korean War, for which he did two years service in Germany; his time there was mainly spent putting on Soldier Shows, which, as he would later remark, gave him his introduction to show business.While working on Venice, a 28 - minute documentary that juxtaposed contemporary views of the city with paintings by the masters, Ivory was introduced to art from India's golden age.

Not only does this film resurrect old Cold War red menace paranoia to paint the villainous Decepticons as Commies, but it also evokes a lot of contemporary xenophobia towards a vague notion of what lies in the Middle East.

• Amsterdam: Explore the canals by night in a saloon boat • Athens: View the Parthenon from the Grande Bretagne Hotel rooftop • Barcelona: Go on a tapas crawl • Belle - Île, France: Enjoy oysters at Le Bistrot du Port • Berlin: Tap into the underground nightlife scene • Budapest: Stay at the restored Four Seasons Gresham Palace • Copenhagen: Browse contemporary design shops • Florence: Tour the Vasari Corridor at the Uffizi • Galway, Ireland: Pair oysters with Guinness at Moran's Oyster Cottage • Iceland: Marvel at the Northern Lights • Isle of Skye, Scotland: Go for whisky tastings at Tallisker distillery • Istanbul: Wander the Grand Bazaar • London: Start with breakfast at the cabmen's shelter on Pont Street • Madrid: Visit the Black Paintings room at the Museo del Prado • Moscow: Tour the Diamond Vaults within the Kremlin • Paris: Snack on bread from Du Pain et Des Idees • Peloponnese, Greece: Stay at the ultra-luxe Amanzoe • Prague: Explore Prague's historic center • Rome: Buy a gelato at San Crispino • Santorini, Greece: Lounge at Red Beach • Sicily: See the mosaics at Villa Romana del Casale • Siena, Italy: Attend the medieval - era Palio horse race • Spain: Take an architecture - themed drive from Bilbao to Granada • Stockholm: Visit the Vasa Museum • Venice: Shop for glassware at L'Angolo del Passat • Versailles, France: Explore Andre Le Notre's gardens at Versailles • Vienna: Attend a concert at the Musikverein

The first is the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, which is a museum for contemporary art, whilst the second is the Musée de l'Orangerie, another art museum which is the home to the famous Water Lily paintings by Claude Monet.

Don't miss the cultural stops, too, like the La Jolla branch of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Warwick's (the nation's oldest family - owned bookstore), or the local art galleries such as Legends Gallery, where you can see out - of - the box paintings by the late Theodore Geisel, the long - time La Jolla resident better known as Dr. Seuss.

Yau writes: «There are few contemporary artists who can make a convincing narrative painting, one that doesn't devolve into a mere story.

Contemporary directions — earthworks, conceptual art, art as information, etc. — certainly point away from emphasis on the individual genius and his salable products; in art history, Harrison C. and Cynthia A. White's Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World, New York, 1965, opens up a fruitful new direction of investigation, as did Nikolaus Pevsner's pioneering Academies of Art.

1981 Amerikanische Malerei 1930 — 1980, Haus der Kunst, Munich (November 14, 1981 — January 31, 1982) Ciba - Geigy Collects: Aspects of Abstraction, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston (September 8 — October 24) Art Américain: Oeuvres des collections du Musée national d'art moderns, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (September 2 — December 2) 45th Annual Mid-Year Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio (June 28 — August 30) 26 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France (spring) 37th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting: Frank Stella, Joan Mitchell, Richard Diebenkorn, Agnes Martin, Richard Serra, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (February 19 — April 5) 1980 The Originals: Women in Art, Graham Gallery, New York (January 15 — February 20)

At the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, you can still see «Morning: Chapter 30,» the first retrospective of R. H. Quaytman's austere merging of painting, photography and location, and «Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady?

Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY Claxons (four - person exhibition, curated by Walter Robinson), Haunch of Venison, New York, NY Grey Area, New York, NY The Queen's Feathers (one - person exhibition), John Tevis Gallery, Paris France 2011 Peacocks and Bottles (one - person exhibition) Organized by Nana Kipiani in conjunction with Artisterium, National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia Forever and Never, One More Time (two - person exhibition), Season, Seattle, WA Color Theory, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY 2010 Birdbaths and Birdhouses (one person exhibition), Le Petit Versailles, New York, NY The Visible Vagina, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art & David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Modern & Contemporary Ceramics, A.M. Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY Bazvalon (one person exhibition), Rose Burlingham Living Room Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Momenta Art (one person exhibition), Brooklyn, NY French Kiss, organized by Rob Wynne, JGM Galerie, Paris The Demoiselles Revisited, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL (Momenta Art booth) 2006 The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY 2005 Picture Window, (site specific, city organized), Baltimore, Maryland 2004 Hall of Portraits, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland College Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD 2003 The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY Sleight of Hand, Salena Gallery, Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY 2002 Kismet, The Work Space, New York, NY 2001 Bad Touch, Lump gallery / projects, Raleigh, NC (also traveled to Keith Talent Gallery, London, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, Space (1026, Philidelphia & UIMA, Chicago) Beautiful You, curated by Larry Krone, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York, NY Your Humble Servant the Genius (two person exhibition with Rob Wynne), Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY Nijinsky, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY 1999 The Fin - de-Siécle Salon, curated by J. A. Poisson, P.S. 122, New York, NY 1998 Re: Duchamp (organized by Mike Bidlo), Abraham Lubelski Gallery, New York, NY Bowie, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France (one person exhibition) The Whole World in a Small Painting, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY 1996 Cadmium Cathode, Sauce, Brooklyn, NY

I know a lot less about contemporary painting than I do about 19th century philosophy; this article has helped to bridge the divide.

Walking through the show I thought more than once that Sherman may have grappled more brilliantly with the legacy of Old Master painting in the 1980s and»90s than did any of her brush - wielding contemporaries.

Contemporary art doesn't come more soulless than the paintings of the Beijing - based artist Li Songsong, who is having his American debut at Pace Gallery.

Touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts which traveled to Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (January 31 — February 26, 1960); John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis (March 12 — April 2, 1960); Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (April 19 — May 5, 1960); Holiday Art Center, Watch Hill, Rhode Island (July 22 — August 15, 1960); Atlanta Public Library, Georgia (December 14, 1960 — January 4, 1961); and Wells College, Aurora, New York (February 23 — March 13, 1961) 1959 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (December 9, 1959 — January 31, 1960) Two Centuries of American Art, 1750 — 1950, The Art Institute of Chicago (October — December) V Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paolo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paolo, Brazil (September 21 — December 31) Vitalità nell «arte, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (August — October).

1958 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (December 5, 1958 — February 8, 1959) A propos du baroque: Jean Degottex, Marcelle Ferron, Sam Francis, Simon Hantaï, Shirley Jaffe, Marcelle Loubchansky, Joan Mitchell, Judit Reigl, Jean - Paul Riopelle, Galerie Kléber, Paris (November — December) Some Contemporary Works of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (November 11 - December 31) American Symbolic Realists: Fifteen American Artists, Palazzo Collicola, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy (June 8 — 29) 18th Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago (May 8 — June 8) The Museum and Its Friends: Twentieth - Century American Art from Collections of the Friends of the Whitney Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (April 30 — June 15) American Artists of Younger Reputation, New York Art Foundation, Rome (opened April 14) The Evocative Eye, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, New York (July 5 - 24) The International Art of a New Era: Informel and Gutai, Osaka Festival, Osaka, Japan (September 2 — 7) Action Painting, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts (March 5 — April 13) Abstract Impressionism, The Art Galleries, Portland Building, University of Nottingham, England (February 19 — March 19).

Possibly the most beautiful contemporary painting at the fair was Thomas Schiebitz's Index (2009 - 2010), presented by Produzentengalerie Hamburg: a sweeping, bouncy geometric abstraction work that reminds viewers of all the things a little paintbrush can do.

But as SAMA's visitor notice makes clear, although the seventy - five works on view were translated from ephemeral sand and body paintings, they were done so for the express purpose of participating in the international contemporary art market.

But taking a craft - centric approach to photorealism is a strange move — one that feels less contrarian than oblivious (and I don't only mean oblivious to the trends in, say, MoMA's survey of contemporary painting.)

It doens» t mean that I'm going to stop MoMA from doing another contemporary painting show for 30 years, although any of my colleagues that decide to do it, I would salute them.

What does this mean for contemporary painting?

I don't think contemporary painting should cut out narration.

Doing a contemporary painting show at the Museum of Modern Art is an interesting exercise nowadays, in second decade of the 2000s, because we are conferring value onto what we put on the wall.

September / October, p. 78 Williams, Maxwell, Kehinde Wiley: The Transcontinental Breadth of a Contemporary Master, Flaunt Magazine Issue 114, pp. 132 - 137, Cover and Feature Finkel, Jori, Kehinde Wiley Paints A Diverse Israel, Los Angeles Times, 9 April, D14 Frank, Peter, Kehinde Wiley, Huffington Post, 27 May Leib, R, Go See - Los Angeles: Kehinde Wiley «The World Stage: Israeli, Art Observed, 17 May Meers, Carolyn, Calendar May 2011 The World Stage: Israel, Angeleno, May, p. 28 Dambrot, Shana Nys, For Art Thou, Culver City, LA Weekly, 8 April, pp. 34 - 35 Laster, Paul, Kehinde Wiley Asks: «What Does An Israeli Even Look Like?

Bringing to mind diverse sources of influence such as early Pop art, Precisionism and New Objectivity, these paintings suggests that a level, clear - eyed gaze at our contemporary experience does not preclude an affective relationship with it.

Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to announce a group exhibition of paintings, sculptures, photographs, video and mixed media works by artists Birgir Andrésson, Adam Belt, Stephen Curry, Roman de Salvo, Andy Diaz Hope in collaboration with Laurel Roth, Iran do Espírito Santo, Vernon Fisher, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Maiko Haruki, Anya Gallaccio, Andy Goldsworthy, Roy McMakin, Lincoln Schatz and James Turrell.

Each artist questions the means and the ends of painting in contemporary art, quite clearly demonstrating that as contemporary theory re-appropriates art history, so does contemporary artist re-appropriate the act of art making.

Call me only if you are in the gutter, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA Exalted Position, curated by Vlad Smolkin, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY Pipe Dream, presented by Night Gallery and Rachel Uffner Gallery, 170 Suffolk Street New York, NY Gallery Artist Group Show, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY TDW: Three Way Weekend, Blum & Poe, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, and ROGERS, Los Angeles, CA 2015 The John Riepenhoff Experience, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings, School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY Let's Be Real, Projekt 722, New York, NY 2014 The Crystal Palace, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY QUALIA, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2013 The Room and its Inhabitants, organized by Patrick Howlett, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada The 2013 deCordova Biennial (with Dushko Petrovich), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA 2012 Love, curated by Stephen Truax, One River Gallery, Engelwood, NJ Art on Paper 2012, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Take Shelter in the World, curated by Dushko Petrovich, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA In Plain Sight, organized by Nicole Russo and Lumi Tan, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY 2011 The Idea of the Thing That it Isn't, curated by Rachel Uffner, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY Channel to the New Image, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Battle of the Brush, organized by Corporate Art Solutions at Bryant Park, New York, NY 2010 The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY ITEM, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY S (l) umm (er) ing on Madison Avenue, curated by Jo - ey Tang, The Notary Public, New York, NY Kristin Calabrese, Andy Parker, Mary Weatherford, Roger White, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid», curated by Ryan Steadman, 106 Green Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Cave Painting: Installment # 2, organized by Bob Nickas, Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY The Audio Show, organized by Seth Kelly, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY 2008 The Merits of Silence, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo 2007 Heralds of Creative Anachronism, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY The Price of Nothing, EFA Gallery, NY 2006 Mystic River, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY / Arcadia University, Glenside, PA 2005 Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL You Are Here, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX The Most Splendid Apocalypse, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY Crits» Pix, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Halloween Horror Films,, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn NY Summery Summary, 58 N3, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Dreamy, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY Escape from New York, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Late to Work Everyday, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Learnedamerica, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY Tirana Bienalle 1, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania 2000 Columbia University M.F.A. Thesis Show, Brooklyn, NY 1999 All Terrain, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Wight Biennial, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Episode 1, Gair Building, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Rothko to Richter: Mark - Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ It's What You Do With What You View»: Selections from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME Art = Text = Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, UB Anderson Gallery, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

That may seem like a simple statement, but given the state of contemporary art — with its endless carnival of art fairs peddling vacuous abstraction, celebrity - hyped artists, and conceptualism - light — the fact that Borremans paints the kinds of pictures he does is actually a radical proposition.

These are impressively adept paintings with a confident sense of scale, but they do not have a distinctive character compared to contemporary works by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, or Joan Mitchell, to reference only the most noted women abstract painters of Schapiro's generation.

1988 Cultural Geometry, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (curated by Jeffrey Deitch, catalogue) Collection Sonnabend: 25 Years of Selection and Activity, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; traveled to CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy; Musée Rath, Geneva; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan; National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan (catalogue) Galerie Lelong, New York A Drawing Show, Cable Gallery, New York Hover Culture, Metro Pictures, New York Art at the End of the Social, The Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (curated by Collins & Milazzo, catalogue) Australian Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; travelled to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (catalogue) La Couleur Seule: L'Experience du monochrome, Musée Saint Pierre, Lyon, France (catalogue) Hybrid Neutral, Modes of Abstraction and the Social, I.C.I. Exhibition: University Art Gallery, The University of North Texas, Denton, TX; travelled to J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Alberta College of Art, Alberta, Canada; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL; Santa Fe Community College Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL (curated by Collins & Milazzo, catalogue) Works Concepts Processes Situations Information, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Robert Nickas) American Art of the Late 80s: The Binational, Museum of Fine Arts and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; travelled to Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany (catalogue) Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue) New Works, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles A Debate on Abstraction: Systems and Abstraction, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York (catalogue) Viewpoints: Postwar Painting and Sculpture from the Guggenheim Museum Collection and Major Loans, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Three Decades: The Oliver Hoffman Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)

Moreau, the most inventive old - school artist of nineteenth - century French painting, would likely be baffled by the company that eight of his paintings are keeping in Nahmad Contemporary's current show, Les Fleurs du Mal.

«I don't feel mine is the most modern contemporary, beyond - the - pale, gone kind of painting,» Kline told Frank O'Hara as late as 1959, «But then, I don't have that kind of fuck - the - past attitude.»

While the «joke paintings» take a swing at Richard Prince, say, or at the power dynamics generally played out in contemporary painting — and do so with Prior's legacy as weapon — the present installation instead quiets and diffuses a man the artist plainly admires.

Richter's more recent work has transformed into more recognizable narratives, a kind of contemporary history painting: «When I changed to narration it was also an urge that had to do, on a very simple level, with reality... I felt the desire to paint things that related to what I saw in the world.»

2003 Painting Lesson, Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan (catalogue) Conversations: Influence and Collaboration in Contemporary Art, Evergreen House, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (catalogue) A Notion of Time, Ingrao Gallery, New York Intersection... Art / Design / New Media, Jan Abrams Fine Art, New York Fall Colors: Group Show, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the DaimlerChrysler Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI On: Inaugural Show, Galerie Xippas, Athens Unframed First Look, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York The DaimlerChrysler Collection, Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany The Past of the Present: Selections from the ABN AMRO Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China; travelled to Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paolo Painting: from Rauschenberg to Murakami, 1964 — 2003, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice (catalogue) American Beauty, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Recent Screenprints, Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York New York Contemporaries, Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York White on White, Galerie Xippas, Paris

Iglesias, F.Meisenberg, B.Ruais, K.Thorne, J.VanDyke / Abrons / 466 Grand / thru 12/20 Kaari Upson / Ramiken Crucible / 389 Grand / thru 12/14 Matt Connolly / Essex Flowers / 365 Grand / thru 1/4 Opening 11/21 Keumnin Lee / Shin / 322 Grand / thru 11/30 Ulf Puder; Bettina Blohm / Straus / 299 Grand / thru 12/12 Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho / 47 Canal / 291 Grand — floor 2 (new location) / thru 12/21 Bright Matter: LAb [au]; Numen / For Use; Joanie Lemercier; Nonotak; François Wunschel / Guepin / 83 Orchard / thru 1/11 Opening 11/21 Kiki Kogelnik / Subal / 131 Bowery / thru 12/19 Brad Troemel / Tomorrow / 106 Eldridge / thru 11/30 (extended) The Contract / Essex Street / 114 Eldridge / thru 1/11 Opening 11/21 Reception 11/22 Foster Mickley / Munch / 245 Broome / thru 12/21 Opening 11/21 Robin Kang; Duhirwe Rushemeza / Tabacaru / 250 Broome / thru 12/9 Michelle Lopez / Preston / 301 Broome / thru 12/21 Alexander Tovborg / Beauchene / 327 Broome / thru 12/21 Mary Ann Aitken; John Maggie; Jonathan Rajewski / Hanley / 327 Broome / thru 12/21 Guglielmo Achille Cavellini / Whitebox / 329 Broome / 11/1 thru 11/30 Yui Kugimiya / Marlborough / 331 Broome (third NYC location) / thru 12/21 Opening 11/20 Lily Ludlow / Canada / 333 Broome / thru 12/14 Ulrike Theusner; Paul Brainard / Lodge / 131 Chrystie / thru 12/14 Cristina Vergano / Woodward / 133 Eldridge / thru 12/21 Nayda Collazo - Llorens / LMAK / 139 Eldridge / thru 11/30 James Hoff / Callicoon / 49 Delancey / thru 12/21 Noam Rappaport / Fuentes / 55 Delancey / thru 12/21 XYZ collective / Brennan & Griffin / 55 Delancey / thru 12/21 Jana Winderen & Marc Fornes / Storefront for Art & Architecture / 97 Kenmare @ Centre / thru 11/21 Maya Bloch / Thierry Goldberg / 103 Norfolk / thru 12/21 Josh Faught / Cooley / 107 Norfolk / thru 12/21 Joseph Montgomery / Gitlen / 122 Norfolk / thru 12/21 My Big Fat Painting curated by Rick Briggs; Fred Gutzeit / Morris / 163 Chrystie / thru 11/23 (extended) Closing Reception 11/20 (7 - 9 PM) Mark Joshua Epstein / Morris project space / 163 Chrystie / thru 12/20 Opening 11/20 (7 - 9 PM) Addie Wagenknecht / Bitforms / 131 Allen (new location) / thru 12/7 David Mramor / James / 143b Orchard / thru 12/7 Angelo Volpe / Krause / 149 Orchard / thru 12/8 Beatrice Scaccia / Cuchifritos / 120 Essex (SE corner of market) / thru 11/30 Tommy Hartung / On Stellar Rays / 1 Rivington / thru 11/30 Valeska Soares / Eleven Rivington / 11 Rivington / thru 11/23 Bill Traylor / Cuningham / 15 Rivington (new location) / thru 12/6 Micki Pellerano / Envoy / 87 Rivington / thru 11/23 Do the Write Thing: Read Between the Lines / Berst / 95 Rivington / thru 12/20 Guglielmo Achille Cavellini / Lynch Tham / 175 Rivington / thru 12/21 Jessica Rankin / Salon 94 / 1 Freeman Alley / thru 12/21 Red, Yellow and Orange: Ford Crull; Debra Drexler; Peggy Cyphers / Van Der Plas / 156 Orchard / / thru 12/31 AS IF: Abigail Donovan; Troy Richards; Robert Straight; Peter Williams / Novella / 164 Orchard / thru 12/6 Raquel Rabinovich / Y / 165 Orchard / thru 12/23 Opening 11/21 Tai Ogawa / Matsumiya / 153 1/2 Stanton / thru 12/31 Magnolia Laurie / Frosch & Portmann / 53 Stanton / thru 11/23 Forces at Play: S.Crider; B.Gardner; M.Keller; J.Mellon; L.Rablin / Molly Krom / 53c Stanton / thru 11/30 Valeska Soares / Eleven Rivington / 195 Chrystie (second location) / thru 11/23 Sara Goldschmied; Eleonora Chiari / Lorello / 195 Chrystie — floor 6 / 11/19 thru 1/25 Reception 12/11 Kader Attia / Lehmann Maupin / 201 Chrystie / thru 12/13 George Horner thru 12/6, Henry Mandell thru 1/10 / Charles / 196 Bowery Lili Reynaud - Dewar thru 1/25; Chris Ofili thru 2/10; etc. / New Museum / 231 - 235 Bowery Takeshi Murata / Salon 94 / 243 Bowery / thru 12/21 Heinz Mack / Sperone Westwater / 257 Bowery / thru 12/13 Notes on Undoing / Garis & Hahn / 263 Bowery / thru 12/20 Opening 11/20 Charles Dunn / Rucker / 141 Attorney / thru 11/26 Serge Alain Nitegeka / Boesky East / 20 Clinton (new, third NYC location) / thru 12/21 Matthew Fischer / Junior Projects / 139 Norfolk / thru 12/21 Pierre St - Jacques / Station Independent / 164 Suffolk / thru 12/14 Aki Sasamoto / JTT / 170a Suffolk / thru 12/14 (Performances 12/12 @ 6 PM) Sara Greenberger Rafferty / Uffner / 170 Suffolk / thru 12/21 Matt Hoyt / Bureau / 178 Norfolk / thru 12/21 Stuart Shils / Harvey / 208 Forsyth / thru 12/21 Opening 11/19 Arianna Carossa / Rooster / 190 Orchard / thru 1/4 Opening 11/25 Greer Lankon / Participant / 253 E Houston / thru 12/21 Henry Flynt / Audio Visual Arts / 34 E 1st / thru 11/23 (extended) Joel Holmberg / American Contemporary / 4 E 2nd / thru 12/19 Early Man / The Hole / 312 Bowery / thru 12/28

«Bradford's visually striking canvases push the possibilities of contemporary painting — for instance, the artist does not use paint in his work.»

«His paintings, videos and sculptures capture the beauty, grit and complexity of contemporary urban society, and they do so with an honesty and an originality that makes us want to look deeper at the art and at ourselves.»

«Making Space» does not try to pick winners in the contemporary scene — although women have done plenty to drive the resurgence of painting.

You don't need to be an art insider to hear the term «Abstract Expressionists» used to describe the inspiration behind all manner of contemporary painting, but what was the original movement all about?

«We are not in Rome and we don't want to go there,» he said, expressing his concern that artists should paint contemporary life as they knew it, instead of following the tradition of copying Italian Old Master paintings.

However, instead of creating slickly - made celebrations of contemporary culture or painting commodities that Americans desired, as Warhol and James Rosenquist habitually did, Polke subverted the colourful, consumerist optimism with tawdry materials, deliberately off - key printing and random splashes of paint that implied a world that was not rising ever - upwards, but slowly fracturing apart.

Don't Look Back, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin Nomadic Images, 16th International Vilnius Painting Triennial, organized by the Lithuanian Artists» Association, Museum of Applied Art and Design in Vilnius, Lithuania «Various are the lines of life...», Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Windhof, Luxemborg The Present Order, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany Sammlung Viehof: Internationale Kunst der Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime, curated by Joel Sternfeld, The Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT [cat.]

No one captured the isolation of the individual within the modern city like Edward did with his paintings [10] and these artworks were, in many ways, responsible for paving the conceptual road towards Abstract Expressionism, bridging its ideas with the concepts of the contemporary Ashcan School.

1955 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Contemporary American Painting & Sculpture, University of Illinois, Champoaign, IL Contemporary Painters from The Phillips Gallery, Duke University Art Gallery, Durham, NC Contemporary Painting, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, NY Ten American Collectors, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX L'Exposition du Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France 3rd Annual Exhibition, Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Ogunquit, ME 3rd Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI American Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, WI